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Journées francophones sur les systèmes multi-agents

Author : Journées francophones sur les systèmes multi-agents
Publisher : Éditions Cépaduès
ISBN 13 : 9782364935594
Total Pages : 255 pages
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Download or read book Journées francophones sur les systèmes multi-agents written by Journées francophones sur les systèmes multi-agents and published by Éditions Cépaduès. This book was released on 2016 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage contient l'ensemble des contributions sélectionnées et présentées lors de la vingt-quatrième édition des Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents (JFSMA) qui s'est tenue à Saint-Martin-du-Vivier, à proximité de Rouen (FR) du 5 au 7 octobre 2016. Par essence pluridisciplinaire, le paradigme multi-agent fournit un cadre conceptuel pour l'étude et la conception de systèmes dont la dynamique globale est le fruit d'entités autonomes agents qui interagissent dans un environnement commun. Les JFSMA constituent de fait un moment privilégié d'échanges scientifiques transversaux qui réunit chaque année des chercheurs qui étudient, utilisent et font évoluer le paradigme multi-agent pour adresser des problématiques issues de domaines liés à l'informatique (intelligence et vie artificielle, génie logiciel, robotique collective, etc.) et aux sciences humaines et naturelles (économie, sociologie, éthologie, etc.). Les travaux de recherche recensés dans ces actes proposent ainsi des modèles, des méthodologies, des techniques et des outils qui permettent notamment de répondre à différents problèmes que l'on peut décliner selon quatre aspects : - le développement de systèmes informatiques décentralisés où l'approche SMA permet l'intégration flexible et la coopération de logiciels et de services autonomes. - la résolution collective de problème pour laquelle il s'agit de résoudre de manière distribuée un problème qui se pose globalement à la collectivité d'agents. - la simulation de phénomènes complexes où la modélisation multi-agent apporte un cadre conceptuel permettant la représentation et la simulation de systèmes faisant intervenir différentes entités en interaction. - le développement de systèmes médiatisés où utilisateurs humains et agents artificiels interagissent directement ou indirectement, dans le cadre d'activités collectives de type éducatif, culturel ou social. Par tradition, chaque édition des JFSMA met en exergue une thématique spécifique que les auteurs sont invités à prendre en compte dans leurs contributions. Pour cette édition, le thème des journées fut "systèmes multi-agents et simulation". [Source: 4e de couv.]

Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XI

Author : Tibor Bosse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642183441
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XI written by Tibor Bosse and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the 11th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS 2010), a workshop co-located with the 9th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), which was held on May 10-14, 2010 in Toronto, Canada. The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The workshop has been an important source of inspiration for the body of knowledge that has been produced in the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). As illustrated by this volume, the workshop continues to bring together researchers interested in MAS engineering with researchers focused on finding efficient ways to model complex social systems in social, economic and organizational areas. In all these areas, agent theories, metaphors, models, analyses, experimental designs, empirical studies, and methodological principles all converge into simulation as a way of achieving explanations and predictions, exploring and testing hypotheses, and producing better designs and systems.

Journées francophones sur les systèmes multi-agents

Author : René Mandiau
Publisher : Editions Cépaduès
ISBN 13 : 9782854288612
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (886 download)

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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III

Author : Vladimir Marik
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540404503
Total Pages : 676 pages
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Download or read book Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III written by Vladimir Marik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-06-02 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Central and European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS 2003, held in Prague, Czech Republic in June 2003. The 58 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on formal methods, social knowledge and meta-reasoning, negotiation, and policies, ontologies and languages, planning, coalitions, evolution and emergent behaviour, platforms, protocols, security, real-time and synchronization, industrial applications, e-business and virtual enterprises, and Web and mobile agents.

Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV

Author : Andrea Omicini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540222316
Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV written by Andrea Omicini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-06-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2004, held in London, UK in October 2004. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement for inclusion in the book; also included are 2 invited papers by leading researchers in order to round of the coverage of the relevant topics. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: - multidisciplinary for agent societies - coordination, organization, and security of agent societies - abstractions, methodologies, and tools for engineering agent societies - applications of agent societies

JFIADSMA'00

Author : Sylvie Pesty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782746201767
Total Pages : 416 pages
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Download or read book JFIADSMA'00 written by Sylvie Pesty and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Méthodologie, Technologie et Expériences sont les trois thèmes principaux choisis pour l'édition 2000 des Journées Francophones d'Intelligence Artificielle Distribuée et Systèmes Multi-Agents (JFIADSMA). En effet, la communauté multi-agent, forte de ses quelque dix à quinze ans d'expérience, s'est tournée dernièrement vers des aspects " ingénierie ". C'est donc à quelques-unes des questions suivantes que ces rencontres ont cherché à répondre : Quel est l'impact des approches agent et multi-agent sur la conception des systèmes ? sur leur développement ? Quelle est la spécificité d'une méthodologie agent et/ou multi-agent ? Quels modèles et approches formelles d'agent, d'environnement, d'interaction ou d'organisation constituent les meilleurs choix ? Quels sont les outils, plates-formes ou environnements de développement pour la mise en œuvre de tels systèmes ? Quels sont les domaines d'application les plus concernés ? Cette année, associées aux vingt-deux présentations scientifiques et techniques, se sont déroulées quinze démonstrations de plates-formes, d'outils et d'applications, reflets des savoirs et savoir-faire de la communauté " IAD et SMA " francophone, en matière de conception et développement de systèmes multi-agents.

Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Author : Yves Demazeau
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642287867
Total Pages : 297 pages
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Download or read book Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems written by Yves Demazeau and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. PAAMS started as a local initiative, but has since grown to become THE international yearly platform to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world applications. It provides a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts, academics and practitioners together to exchange their experience in the development and deployment of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS intends to bring together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of multi-agent systems, to discuss and debate the major issues, and to showcase the latest systems using agent based technology. It will promote a forum for discussion on how agent-based techniques, methods, and tools help system designers to accomplish the mapping between available agent technology and application needs. Other stakeholders should be rewarded with a better understanding of the potential and challenges of the agent-oriented approach. This edition of PAAMS brings together past experience, current work, and promising future trends associated with distributed computing, artificial intelligence and their application in order to provide efficient solutions to real problems. This symposium is organized by the Bioinformatics, Intelligent System and Educational Technology Research Group (http://bisite.usal.es/) of the University of Salamanca. The present edition will be held in Salamanca, Spain, from 28th to 30th March 2012. This edition of PAAMS brings together past experience, current work, and promising future trends associated with distributed computing, artificial intelligence and their application in order to provide efficient solutions to real problems. This symposium is organized by the Bioinformatics, Intelligent System and Educational Technology Research Group (http://bisite.usal.es/) of the University of Salamanca. The present edition will be held in Salamanca, Spain, from 28th to 30th March 2012.

Engineering Multi-Agent Systems

Author : Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319918990
Total Pages : 205 pages
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Download or read book Engineering Multi-Agent Systems written by Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the revised and selected papers from the 5th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in May 2018, in conjunction with AAMAS 2018. The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The book contains also the best paper of the workshop that has been published previously in another LNCS volume. The EMAS workshop focusses on the cross-fertilisation of ideas and experiences in the various fields with the aim to enhance knowledge and expertise in MAS engineering , to improve the state-of-the-art, to define new directions for MAS engineering, to investigate how established methodologies for engineering and large-scale and open MAS can be adapted.

Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XIX

Author : Paul Davidsson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030222705
Total Pages : 153 pages
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Download or read book Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XIX written by Paul Davidsson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2019, held in Stockholm Sweden, in July 2018 as part of the Federated AI Meeting, FAIM 2018. The 10 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully selected from 15 submissions. They focus on finding efficient solutions to model complex social systems in such areas as economics, management, and organisational and social sciences. In all these areas, agent theories, metaphors, models, analysis, experimental designs, empirical studies, and methodological principles, converge into simulation as a way of achieving explanations and predictions, exploration and testing of hypotheses, better designs and systems.

Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies

Author : Francesco Belardinelli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030017133
Total Pages : 554 pages
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Download or read book Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies written by Francesco Belardinelli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 15th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, EUMAS 2017, and the 5th International Conference on Agreement Technologies, AT 2017, held in Evry, France, in December 2017.The 28 full papers, 3 short papers, and 2 invited papers for EUMAS and the 14 full papers and 2 short papers for AT, presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 76 submissions. The papers cover thematic areas like agent-based modelling; logic and formal methods; argumentation and rational choice; simulation; games; negotiation, planning, and coalitions; algorithms and frameworks; applications; and philosophical and theoretical studies.

Agents and Multi-Agent Systems for Health Care

Author : Sara Montagna
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319708872
Total Pages : 161 pages
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Download or read book Agents and Multi-Agent Systems for Health Care written by Sara Montagna and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains revised and extended selected papers from two workshops: the 10th International Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care, A2HC 2017, held at the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2017, held in São Paulo, Brazil, in May 2017, and the International Workshop on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems for AAL and e-Health, A-HEALTH 2017, held at the 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2017, in Porto, Portugal, in June 2017. The 9 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. They feature current research topics such as personalised health systems for remote and autonomous tele-assistance, communication and co-operation between distributed intelligent agents to manage patient care, information agents that retrieve medical information from distributed repositories, intelligent and distributed data mining, and multi-agent systems that assist the doctors in the tasks of monitoring, decision support and diagnosis.

Design of Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems

Author : Rajiv Khosla
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540445161
Total Pages : 462 pages
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Download or read book Design of Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems written by Rajiv Khosla and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a tremendous interest in the design and applications of agents in virtually every area including avionics, business, internet, engineering, health sciences and management. There is no agreed one definition of an agent but we can define an agent as a computer program that autonomously or semi-autonomously acts on behalf of the user. In the last five years transition of intelligent systems research in general and agent based research in particular from a laboratory environment into the real world has resulted in the emergence of several phenomenon. These trends can be placed in three catego ries, namely, humanization, architectures and learning and adapta tion. These phenomena are distinct from the traditional logic centered approach associated with the agent paradigm. Humaniza tion of agents can be understood among other aspects, in terms of the semantics quality of design of agents. The need to humanize agents is to allow practitioners and users to make more effective use of this technology. It relates to the semantic quality of the agent design. Further, context-awareness is another aspect which has as sumed importance in the light of ubiquitous computing and ambi ent intelligence. The widespread and varied use of agents on the other hand has cre ated a need for agent-based software development frameworks and design patterns as well architectures for situated interaction, nego tiation, e-commerce, e-business and informational retrieval. Fi- vi Preface nally, traditional agent designs did not incorporate human-like abilities of learning and adaptation.

From Theory to Practice in Multi-Agent Systems

Author : Barbara Dunin-Keplicz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540459413
Total Pages : 346 pages
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Download or read book From Theory to Practice in Multi-Agent Systems written by Barbara Dunin-Keplicz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at CEEMAS 2001. The wo- shop was the fourth in a series of international conferences devoted to autonomous agents and multi-agent systems organized in Central-Eastern Europe. Its predecessors wereCEEMAS’99andDAIMAS’97,whichtookplaceinSt. Petersburg,Russia,aswell as DIMAS’95, which took place in Cracow, Poland. Organizers of all these events made efforts to make them wide-open to participants from all over the world. This would have been impossible without some help from friendly centers in the Czech Republic, England, France, Japan, and The Netherlands. DIMAS’95 featured papers from 15 countries, while CEEMAS’99 from 18 co- tries. A total of 61 papers were submitted to CEEMAS 2001 from 17 countries. Out of these papers, 31 were selected for regular presentation, while 14 were quali ed as posters. The motto of the meeting was “Diversity is the core of multi-agent systems". This variety of subjects was clearly visible in the CEEMAS 2001 program, addressing the following major areas of multi-agent systems: – Organizations and social aspects of multi-agent systems – Agent and multi-agent system architectures, models, and formalisms – Communication languages, protocols, and negotiation – Applications of multi-agent systems – Agent and multi-agent development tools – Theoretical foundations of DistributedAI – Learning in multi-agent systems The richness of workshop subjects was ensured thanks to the CEEMAS 2001 contributing authors as well as the keynote speakers.

Journées francophones sur les systèmes multi-agents

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ISBN 13 : 9782364930377
Total Pages : 203 pages
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Advanced Mobility and Transport Engineering

Author : Slim Hammadi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118614194
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Mobility and Transport Engineering written by Slim Hammadi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multimodal transport network customers need to be directed during their travels. A travel support tool can be offered by a Multimodal Information System (MIS), which allows them to input their needs and provides them with the appropriate responses to improve their travel conditions. The goal of this book is to design and develop methodologies in order to realize a MIS tool which can ensure permanent multimodal information availability before and during travel, considering passengers’ mobility. The authors propose methods and tools that help transport network customers to formulate their requests when they connect to their favorite information systems through PC, laptop, cell phone, Portable Digital Assistant (PDA), etc. The MIS must automatically identify the websites concerning the customer’s services. These sites can, in fact, represent transport services, cultural services, tourist services, etc. The system should then be able to collect the necessary travel information from these sites in order to construct and propose the most convenient information according to the user’s requests. Contents 1. Agent-oriented Road Traffic Simulation, René Mandiau, Sylvain Piechowiak, Arnaud Doniec and Stéphane Espié. 2. An Agent-based Information System for Searching and Creating Mobility-aiding Services, Slim Hammadi and Hayfa Zgaya. 3. Inter-vehicle Services and Communication, Sylvain Lecomte, Thierry Delot and Mikael Desertot. 4. Modeling and Control of Traffic Flow, Daniel Jolly, Boumediene Kamel and Amar Benasser. 5. Criteria and Methods for Interactive System Evaluation: Application to a Regulation Post in the Transport Domain, Houcine Ezzedine, Abdelwaheb Trabelsi, Chi Dung Tran and Christophe Kolski.

Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems

Author : Danny Weyns
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540850295
Total Pages : 306 pages
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Download or read book Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems written by Danny Weyns and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software intensive systems are increasingly expected to deal with changing user needs and dynamic operating conditions at run time. Examples are the need for life recon?gurations, management of resource variability, and dealing with p- ticular failure modes. Endowing systems with these kinds of capabilities poses severe challenges to software engineers and necessitates the development of new techniques, practices, and tools that build upon sound engineering principles. The ?eld of multi-agent systems focuses on the foundations and engineering of systems that consists of a network of autonomous entities (agents) that int- act to achieve the system goals. One line of research in multi-agent systems, inspired by biological, physical and other naturally occurring systems, concerns multi-agent systems in which agents share information and coordinate their - havior througha shared medium called an agentenvironment. Typical examples are gradient ?elds and digital pheromones that guide agents in their local c- text and as such facilitate the coordination of a community of agents. Since environment-mediation in multi-agent systems has shown to result in mana- able solutions with very adaptable qualities, it is a promising paradigm to deal with the increasing complexity and dynamism of distributed applications. Control in environment-mediated multi-agent systems is decentralized, i. e. , noneofthecomponentshasfullaccessorcontroloverthesystem. Self-organization isanapproachtoengineerdecentralized,distributedandresource-limitedsystems thatarecapableofdynamicallyadaptingtochangingconditionsandrequirements without external intervention. This useful system property is often re?ected in functionssuchasself-con?guration,self-optimization,andself-healing. Engine- ing approaches to self-organizing systems often rely on global functionality to emerge from localand autonomous decisions of individual agents that commu- catethroughasharedagentenvironment.

JFSMA'10 - Dix-huitièmes journées francophones sur les systèmes multi-agents - M

Author : Michel Occello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782854289497
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book JFSMA'10 - Dix-huitièmes journées francophones sur les systèmes multi-agents - M written by Michel Occello and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Systèmes Multi-Agents offrent un paradigme de premier choix pour le développement de systèmes à plusieurs composantes autonomes (agents) pouvant coopérer. Ils permettent de modéliser des systèmes hétérogènes, complexes, non linéaires et évolutifs, et de faire apparaître une intelligence et des capacités qui sont différentes et globalement supérieures à celles des agents qui les composent. Cette intelligence est le fruit de la coexistence d’entités autonomes (agents) aux multiples interactions dans un environnement dynamique. Les SMA ont été utilisés avec succès dans de nombreux domaines, dont : le développement de systèmes informatiques décentralisés (ou ingénierie logicielle orientée multi-agents) où l'approche SMA permet l'intégration flexible et la coopération de logiciels et de services autonomes, la résolution collective de problème pour laquelle il s'agit de résoudre de manière distribuée un problème qui se pose globalement à la collectivité d'agents, la simulation de phénomènes complexes où la modélisation multi-agent apporte un cadre conceptuel permettant la représentation et la simulation de systèmes faisant intervenir différentes entités en interaction. Depuis 1993, les Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents (JFSMA) sont un moment annuel privilégié d'échanges scientifiques entre les chercheurs francophones dans le domaine des Systèmes Multi-Agents (SMA) et des chercheurs issus de différents domaines scientifiques (tels que l'intelligence artificielle, les sciences humaines, les systèmes distribués, la vie artificielle ou encore le génie logiciel). La dix-huitième édition des JFSMA s’est déroulée à Mahdia (Tunisie) du 18 au 20 octobre 2010. Elle fait suite aux éditions de Toulouse (1993), Grenoble (1994), Chambéry (1995), Port-Camargue (1996), Nice (1997), Nancy (1998), l’Ile de la Réunion (1999), Saint-Etienne (2000), Montréal (2001), Lille (2002), Hammamet (2003), Paris (2004), Calais (2005), Annecy (2006), Carcassonne (2007), Brest (2008) et Lyon (2009).